Mongols
1000-1500 CE Social
The Mongols, after they took over china, eliminated one of the most basic of Chinese institutions. That institution was the civil service examination. It was banned until 1315. The Mongols perceived China as just one section of their vast empire, and they classified the population of their domain in China into a hierarchy of four groups, and the native Chinese were at the bottom. The Mongols, of course, were at the top; then came the non-Han, mostly Islamic population that was brought to China by the Mongols to help them rule; third were the northern Chinese; and at the very bottom of the rung were the southern Chinese.
Political
The Mongol empire (empire meaning supreme power in governing) didn’t allow foreigners into the government. They also united under Chinggis Khan he created the four great legacies. Chinggis khan also prescribed punishments for transgressions of laws. There was also the trade and crafts there was support for trading and crafting.
Religious
The Mongols main religion is shamanism where the holy spirits were idolized. Shamanism is where you practice a form of animalistic religion (animism magic thinking belief- all human, animals, and all things in nature have a soul). The Mongols have 12 temples of other religions the Khans, and the nobles didn’t discriminate anyone even the countries they conquered against the religious denominators and let them coexist on equal footing.
Intellectual
The Mongols were pretty smart, and the Kublai patronized painting and the theater. This experienced a golden age during the Yuan Dynasty. They also found advances in medicine and astronomy.
Technological
The Mongols invented a few things. One was the Appliqué. These are shapes cut out of felt to decorate cloth. The Mongols also invented whistle arrows. The arrows with a hole notched near the rear end created a whistling sound. The more arrows in the air, the louder the whistling, then the sound is more terrifying.
Economic
The terrible flood in 1340 caused many economic problems, like leaving a large group of people homeless and wondering around in much confusion and destruction. The tax remissions, as well as granaries for the storage of surplus grain, were thus provided for peasant farmers in North China, in the areas that had been devastated during the war between the Mongols and Chinese. And early in their reign, in reign, in 1262, the mongols prohibited the nomads' animals from roaming in the farmlands and thereby undermining the peasant economy.
Chinggis Khan was born in 1167 but because not much of his early life is known, besides what is described in myth, reliable knowledge about Chinngis Khan is very limited. Some facts that are known most definitely are that his father was assasinated when Chinggis was nine years old, and that his mother appears in traditional Mongol sources as a great savior and herione. Chinggis was also responsible for the unity of the Mongols.
Mongol Empire collapsed because disorginization within the empire due to mongols basic organizing social unit, which was the tribe. it was difficult for the mongols to understand loyalty beyond the tribe.
The Mongols were unique because they were the largest contiguous land empire in world history.
Mongols
1000-1500 CE
Social
The Mongols, after they took over china, eliminated one of the most basic of Chinese institutions. That institution was the civil service examination. It was banned until 1315. The Mongols perceived China as just one section of their vast empire, and they classified the population of their domain in China into a hierarchy of four groups, and the native Chinese were at the bottom. The Mongols, of course, were at the top; then came the non-Han, mostly Islamic population that was brought to China by the Mongols to help them rule; third were the northern Chinese; and at the very bottom of the rung were the southern Chinese.
Political
The Mongol empire (empire meaning supreme power in governing) didn’t allow foreigners into the government. They also united under Chinggis Khan he created the four great legacies. Chinggis khan also prescribed punishments for transgressions of laws. There was also the trade and crafts there was support for trading and crafting.
Religious
The Mongols main religion is shamanism where the holy spirits were idolized. Shamanism is where you practice a form of animalistic religion (animism magic thinking belief- all human, animals, and all things in nature have a soul). The Mongols have 12 temples of other religions the Khans, and the nobles didn’t discriminate anyone even the countries they conquered against the religious denominators and let them coexist on equal footing.
Intellectual
The Mongols were pretty smart, and the Kublai patronized painting and the theater. This experienced a golden age during the Yuan Dynasty. They also found advances in medicine and astronomy.
Technological
The Mongols invented a few things. One was the Appliqué. These are shapes cut out of felt to decorate cloth. The Mongols also invented whistle arrows. The arrows with a hole notched near the rear end created a whistling sound. The more arrows in the air, the louder the whistling, then the sound is more terrifying.
Economic
The terrible flood in 1340 caused many economic problems, like leaving a large group of people homeless and wondering around in much confusion and destruction. The tax remissions, as well as granaries for the storage of surplus grain, were thus provided for peasant farmers in North China, in the areas that had been devastated during the war between the Mongols and Chinese. And early in their reign, in reign, in 1262, the mongols prohibited the nomads' animals from roaming in the farmlands and thereby undermining the peasant economy.
Chinggis Khan was born in 1167 but because not much of his early life is known, besides what is described in myth, reliable knowledge about Chinngis Khan is very limited. Some facts that are known most definitely are that his father was assasinated when Chinggis was nine years old, and that his mother appears in traditional Mongol sources as a great savior and herione. Chinggis was also responsible for the unity of the Mongols.
Mongol Empire collapsed because disorginization within the empire due to mongols basic organizing social unit, which was the tribe. it was difficult for the mongols to understand loyalty beyond the tribe.
The Mongols were unique because they were the largest contiguous land empire in world history.
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